The Insect Play

The Insect Play (1939)


  • Genre: Music, Drama
  • Release Date: 1939-05-29
  • Runtime: 1h 30min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: BBC
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Stephen Thomas

Summary

A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.

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  • Wilfrid Grantham

    as The Lepidopterist / First Snail

  • Edmund Willard

    as The Tranp

  • Pamela Standish

    as The Chrysalis

  • Frank Birch

    as Mr. Beetle / Commander of the Yellows

  • Maire O'Neill

    as Mrs. Beetle / Philanthropist

  • Charles Peters

    as Robber Beetle/Journalist

  • Rupert Bruce Lockhart

    as The Ichneumon Fly / Inventor

  • Sheila Kay

    as The Larva

  • Leslie French

    as Mr. Cricket / Second Snail

  • Wendy Toye

    as Mrs. Cricket

  • Wilfred Franks

    as The Blind Ant Timekeeper

  • Geoffrey Wincott

    as The Parasite
Costume & Make-Up Hugh Stevenson Costume Design
Sound Frederic Austin Music
Production Stephen Thomas Producer
Directing Stephen Thomas Director
Writing Clifford Bax Adaptation
Writing Karel Čapek Writer
Writing Josef Čapek Writer
Crew Andrée Howard Choreographer

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